For the most part, I'd prefere a 12 crack climb to a 12 sport. I'm such a wimp above a bolt it's sickening. I can plug gear into a crack most anytime if I get all weirded out.
About 3 years to get a 12 sport, 8 years to get my first 12 trad. But I still consider myself a 5.10 climber, I have too many gaps to be any better then that. Maybe someday.
Dammit. Not only am I not a "real" climber but only five or six climbs I've made actually count. Next you're going to say it's not right to use an extension ladder to set the toprope.
[size=75]You are as bad as Alan, and even he hits the mark sometimes. -charlie
"Not all conservatives are stupid, but most stupid people are conservative." - John Stuart Mill[/size]
toproping is for girlfriends who are too chicken to lead. shoot, that is why so many people got into bouldering...now they can get scared 5 feet off the deck....keep training alan...someday you might be a real climber...but not if you keep toproping.
